slippy
(UK, Irish, dated) Spry, nimble.
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Slippery-slippy, Slippery-slip! Slppery-slippy, Slippery-slip!
anybody have el naturalista shoes and did you like them and were the treads slippy or grippy they look so cute but i've never tried them and i walk a lot and don't want to fall and break my shit
There may be a rather large Slippy blocking the city today! Though I don't think thats a bad thing! Draw for @chrizzin1.bsky.social!
also with pencil crayon the texture gets more slippy from the wax so it's a whole different tactile experience
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(UK, Irish, dated) Spry, nimble.
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(slightly, informal, Western Pennsylvania English, UK, Irish, Ottawa Valley) Slippery.
“Slippery-slippy, Slippery-slip! Slppery-slippy, Slippery-slip!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“anybody have el naturalista shoes and did you like them and were the treads slippy or grippy they look so cute but i've never tried them and i walk a lot and don't want to fall and break my shit”
— Bluesky· May 2026“There may be a rather large Slippy blocking the city today! Though I don't think thats a bad thing! Draw for @chrizzin1.bsky.social!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“also with pencil crayon the texture gets more slippy from the wax so it's a whole different tactile experience”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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